I use both DB and TM for Mac. One is cloud and one is physical. Can never have too many backups.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Phil Halton Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2025 8:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Time Machine back up drive I decided to go with a samsung one terabyte SSD drive connected by USBC to my MacBook Pro. It’s no bigger than a deck of cards and isn’t really a paperweight tether to the MacBook it is Bus powered, small and light,andcan goanywhere I want to go from room to room and so on. The price is right compared to NAS storage devices and meets my needs. And of course, I can just unplug it and re-plug it anytime I need to which I really didn’t know about.Thanks for all the advice Sent from my IPhone On Nov 23, 2025, at 4:45 PM, Jonathan Cohn <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Yes, but it is not really that bad, if your machines spends 90% of its time in the same place. Even when not connected to the time machine disk, your Macintosh will make hourly snapshots of your hard disk, and then once re-connected to the hard drive those snapshots will be transferred to the Time Machine disk and then purged from your hard disk. So, you can leave your backup disk at home when you go to the coffee shop, and feel fairly confident that you will be able to review changes over the hours you were at theshop. Jonathan On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Yes, Phil. There is indeed a contradiction in requiring a wireless network-capable computer to be tethered to a box for backups. Apple should build a new device, like Time Capsule, for home use. But they don't, because cloud revenue is recurring, and local (and therefore more private) disk use is most certainly not! But, the device you're looking for is called a Network Attached Storage (NAS). There are many types on the market; Synology is well-known and has a mostly accessible UI and apps. Alternatively, if you have another always-on Mac, you can turn it into a NAS, with disks attached to it, then back up to that Mac wirelessly from your MacBook. I know you've found a solution now, but that's the path you want to take if you want local backups and networked convenience. There's another way to use the cloud, without using it for sync. Instead of using a folder for your files, you run a backup application like Backblaze or Arq to copy your files into general cloud storage. This has a recurring cost as well, but it means you don't have to organise your life around the cloud provider. It may also, depending on how much you're backing up, be much cheaper. The files will be strongly encrypted with a password you set, so it will be private, but it also generally means you can no longer access the data without using the backup application, and it takes a while to back up and restore. I wouldn't recommend this unless you're unhappy using sync folders, because you lose a lot of convenience, but if you're online most days, that's the other way to get networked convenience. Cheers, Sabahattin -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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